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Originally Posted by splitimage
At first I didn't really feel comfortable with the label, because to me it didn't seem like my childhood was THAT Bad. I just thought that everyone went through x,y,z. It was only seeing the reaction of people when I'd tell select stories of my childhood and that they clearly considered them awful, that I began to realize that in fact I didn't have a normal childhood at all, whatever normal means.
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I completely get what you mean when you say the reactions you got from people when you told them.... things weren't 'that bad'. I too thought everyone experienced the 'same'.
I feel like I'm now starting to figure out 'normal' and what that should look like for my kids.